Cardano, Girolamo, De subtilitate, 1663

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              niator cùm adeò lutulentus ac ſordidus fluat,
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              vt neſciam quando tam incultum ac barba­
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              rum librum legerim, exiſtimo nec mihi glo­
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              riam quæſiſſe, nec ſibi peperiſſe. </s>
              <s id="s.016108">Etenim in­
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              ter reliqua miſta colluuies videtur puerorum,
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              iuuenum, annum, plebeiorum, nobilium,
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              ſcholarium, ſtudioſorum, pædagogorum, mi­
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              litum, vt nihil magis inconditum poſſit re­
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              periri. </s>
              <s id="s.016109">Nos enim à medicina nunquam diſce­
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              dimus, niſi ad mathematicas, quas à pueritia
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              didici, diuertero voluptatis cauſa. </s>
              <s id="s.016110">Cæterum
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              in naturalibus ea lege ſemper ſum diuagatus
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              vt à medicorum placitis, ne vel lato vngue
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              diſcedam: nec quicquam tracto, pro quo quis
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              iure obiicere poſſit. </s>
              <s id="s.016111">Quî ſcis? </s>
              <s id="s.016112">Itaque miſeret
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              me illius, non ei iraſcor, quòd tot vigilias,
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              tantum temporis, cùm maximè illius penuria
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              laborabat, & qua ætate precioſiſſimum eſſe
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              ſolet, fruſtrà profuderit. </s>
              <s id="s.016113">Sed illud tamen in
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              eo probare non poſſum, quòd his tempori­
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              bus difficillimis, quibus Reſpub. </s>
              <s id="s.016114">literaria tot
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              modis premitur, inſontes viros ſtudioſos, prin­
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              cipum & potentium ludibrio expoſuerit. </s>
              <s id="s.016115">Et
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              tam præclara opera non ſolùm opinionem
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              omnem bonam ex animis, tum horum, tum
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              magiſtratuum de eruditis eximeret, ſed vt
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              maiores ſui opimæ Italiæ parti faces intende­
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              rant, ſic Anteus hic noſter vniuerſis bonarum
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              artium ſtudioſis ac diſciplinis exitium moli­
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              retur, non equidem bene inuenta euertendo,
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              hoc enim induſtriæ, & laboris opus fuiſſet, ſed
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              obſcurando, vt quantum in illo fuerit, tot ad
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              pietatem augendam, humanámque fœlicita­
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              tem præcepta tot laboribus, ſtudiiſque parta
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              impij viri manu perirent: nam cum peripa­
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              tetica Philoſophia iam duobus abhinc anno­
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              rum millibus euulgata ſit, & tot
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              illuſtrata: ad pietatem quidem non niſi detri­
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              mentum, ad naturæ autem & artium experi­
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              menta tam paruum fructum attulit noſtro­
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              rum inuentorum comparatione, vt illam aut
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              falſam, aut nondum benè intellectam eſſe
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              conſtet. </s>
              <s id="s.016116">Fructus enim omnis veræ ſapientiæ
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              pietas eſt, & opera ipſa, quæ vel naturæ, vel
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              artis principio fiunt, induſtria autem
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              .
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              </s>
              <s id="s.016117">Cæterùm ex priore illa diſciplina quid aliud
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              pro operibus, quàm perpetuæ, contentiones,
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              quæ adhuc durant & indies augentur, acqui­
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              ſiuimus - has tamen ambitioſus hic Chriſtia­
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              nus, philoſophuſque ſuperbus, ac medicus
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                <foreign lang="grc">ἀνιατρολόγετος</foreign>
              & tuetur, quod non nouum
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              eſt: & peſſimè defendit, quod nouum pror­
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              ſus eſt. </s>
              <s id="s.016118">Quod ſi de hoc (quod fuit peripateti­
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              cis magis etiam conſpicuum eſt, quàm mihi)
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              dubitat, aut ſi quicquam à me ex ſuis calum­
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              niis grauius conſulto prætermiſſum exiſtimat
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              tria ex ſecunda editione, quam triennio ſcit
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              vulgatum ante has ſuas exercitationes, ſibi
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              eligat, quæcunque voluerit: quæ ſi non ſin­
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              gula efficaci iuxta rei genus declaratione
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              oſtendero, cuiuis hanc condono libertatem,
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              vt me illius loco pro maximo nebulone ſub­
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              iiciat. </s>
              <s id="s.016119">Neque eſt, vt verbis ſe excuſet, qui fa­
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              ctis ac re non ſolùm qualis eſſet ſe oſtende­
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              rit, ſed ſuppoſiticiis perſonis ſubiectis planè
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              doloſo ingenio eſſe declarauerit. </s>
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              APOLOGIÆ FINIS.
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